Windermere Mayor Knocked Unconscious At Town Hall Meeting (VIDEO)

A small Florida town made famous by Tiger Woods' notorious car crash in 2009 is in the headlines again on Wednesday following an altercation at a town hall meeting that left the mayor unconscious.

Gary Bruhn, mayor of Windermere, Florida, was attending a Town Council meeting on Tuesday night to discuss a recent controversy over the uncovering of routine disappearances of guns, drugs and money from evidence lockers at the town's police department. The trend has drawn extra scrutiny following the arrest of former Police Chief Daniel Saylor in January on charges of blocking a child rape investigation involving an acquaintance.

Bruhn spoke out against Town Manager Cecelia Bernier and encouraged her termination in the wake of the latest scandal, My Fox Orlando reports. Bernier's husband, Roland, later responded with allegations of his own, which Bruhn denied outright.

After the meeting, WFTV reports, Mr. Bernier approached Bruhn in a confrontation that allegedly led to the mayor being knocked unconscious.

According to the Associated Press:

Officials say it not clear whether Mayor Gary Bruhn fell or was pushed Tuesday night as he exchanged words with Roland Bernier. But he crashed into a table and fell to the floor, where he was briefly unconscious.

Whatever the cause of the injury, Bruhn left the meeting in a stretcher after being treated by paramedics.

WATCH the report from My Fox Orlando:

Windermere mayor attacked at town hall meeting: MyFoxORLANDO.com

Comments

[dawlishgal]

04:51 PM on 03/25/2011

Oh, it's just FLORIDA.....then no big surprise. For a minute there, I thought it was the lovely little peaceful town in the Lake Country of England.

[AwakeNow]

10:34 AM on 03/25/2011

Peyton Place and As The World Turns all in one spot ... must be a riot living there.

[pixiepotpie]

02:42 PM on 03/25/2011

Man, I miss the Snyders. :)

[AwakeNow]

02:58 PM on 03/25/2011

hehehe .... I really like your moniker
Peace

[G52]

03:35 AM on 03/25/2011

Whats he trying to do? eliminate collective bargaining?

Sounds like a non story since it is reported they don't know if he fell or was pushed.

[AmericanBelle]

01:15 PM on 03/25/2011

Non story based simply on the fact that it hasn't been determined if he fell or was pushed? Are you kidding?

The mayor wasn't there to eliminate collective bargaining. However, apparently union employees have absolutely no control over consistent disappearances of guns, drugs and money from evidence lockers in the police station

But you've proved your idiotic point. Waste, fraud, abuse, theft by union employees is simply fine and should be left alone because they have contracts (through collective bargaining) stating that regardless of how lousy their performance is, they can't be fired....or even questioned, in this case!

[pixiepotpie]

03:42 PM on 03/25/2011

So because humans are corruptible (duh), we should just throw out the baby with the bathwater? Unions came into being for a reason. Those reasons still exist. What are your suggestions to fixing the problem, other than people getting together to fight for themselves (i.e., Unionize)?

[G52]

08:14 PM on 03/25/2011

The waste fraud and abuse you speak of are in in the unregulated private sector corporate structure that seeks to steal from union employees.............

A quick example are the two air traffic controllers that fell asleep on the job recently, or the problems with airport employees. The only THEFT going on in this country is by those who distract the country from the real budget crisis as the trickle up siphoning machine is turned on the poor and middle class. THAT'S YOUR "THEFT "

Domestic discretionary spending (including that of local government) are only a sliver of the budget issues while criminal oil companies (with their "subsidies" etc) and corporate banks and their parasite CEO's on wall street DISTRACT with attacks on working folks and their unions.

No one appointed these mayors and governors as representatives in contract negotiations or representatives for the majority of taxpayers.

This is where you find the true "THUGS"

[Bostontru2u]

07:31 PM on 03/24/2011

Yeah, I'm going to crash on to a table and knock myself Unconscious, and call it.."Whatever caused the injury" Trash reporting.

[AmericanBelle]

01:18 PM on 03/25/2011

This reporting isn't nearly as bad as we've seen in the last 4 years or so. The only difference is that this report deals with union abuse and theft, so let's ignore the facts and make excuses to trash it.

[Bostontru2u]

01:50 PM on 03/25/2011

The news is really bad in Orlando. I read (4) Orlando papers. Only (1) had the story. When a Poster asked where I got the info, and I told them,...it was deleted, here. So, it's bad all around.

[pattio66]

06:48 PM on 03/24/2011

Sounds like mayor, city manager, and police chief are all complete d olts.

[TomUpton]

03:44 PM on 03/24/2011

POW!

[DMSmith]

03:28 PM on 03/24/2011

Sounds like a lovely place.

[Ronni01]

02:23 PM on 03/24/2011

Anybody know what the husbands problem was? I see the keep skipping over what the husband said to the mayor.

[DMSmith]

03:31 PM on 03/24/2011

I'm assuming the husband's problem was the Mayor was publicly maligning his wife, accusing her and saying she should be fired. Sounds like the Mayor was using bad judgement in saying this stuff and upset the husband. Not a surprise.

[ron ray]

03:51 PM on 03/24/2011

Or maybe it was the possibility of losing access to all those guns and drugs and all that money.

[Ronni01]

03:54 PM on 03/24/2011

I was gettin the sense that it was on a more personal level, because they said the husband had some "allegations of his own"

[AmericanBelle]

01:26 PM on 03/25/2011

When in doubt, research. This isn't a HuffPo exclusive and as we all know anyway, HP likes to put its own liberal spin on everything, leaving out a lot of facts.

Go here http://www.wftv.com/news/27287314/detail.html and get a blow-by-blow description of what happened.

The melee took place during a break which is why there's not a clear understanding of what took place.

This one: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2011-03-23/news/os-windermere-mayor-unconsious-20110322_1_town-council-mccoy-mayor-gary-bruhn describes exactly what I thought happened, which is during the break, the husband went after the mayor and punched him in the face which knocked the mayor into crashing into the desk and falling to the floor unconscious.

[Ronni01]

04:37 PM on 03/30/2011

Thanks much. These articles still didn't say what the husbands accusations were and I can't seem to find them anywhere. But thanks anyway hun.

[Hagrid]

12:56 PM on 03/24/2011

You gotta love Florida... only they could knock Qaddafi an earthquake and a tsunami of the news.

[carmnjak]

12:34 PM on 03/24/2011

Perhaps it is fortunate the open carry is not law yet.They both could have been armed and shot it out

[AbeMartin]

11:16 AM on 03/24/2011

The flip tone, casual acceptance of violence and injury and the unsuccessful attemps at humor exhibited by many of the respondents is contemptible.  I believe that more than one believe the shooting of Congresswoman Giffords, the murder of six people including a nine year old girl, and the wounding of 24 more is a) politics as usual and b) a Constitutionally guaranteed exercise of 2nd Amendment rights. 

[Bostontru2u]

07:24 PM on 03/24/2011

Just the Tea/Repugs. Life means nothing to them, as long as they keep their guns, and Sara Palin on the front page of HuffPost.

[AmericanBelle]

01:30 PM on 03/25/2011

You aren't on the same page as the rest of us. Most of the responses here excited over knocking out the mayor are loathsome and are NOT coming from conservatives. As you should know, life means everthing to conservatives, especially when compared to the morally and ethically challenged demobaggers.

Get off the toilet before you lose any more brain matter.

[Yes We CanCan]

11:00 AM on 03/24/2011

How uncivil! Maybe the answer is professional moderators behind the
scenes at all these political events. When things get too heated, harsh
words can be deleted before reaching the level of fisticuffs!

[DoctorWhoDat]

10:53 AM on 03/24/2011

"One by one I'll knock you out"...Beck from "Cellphones Dead"

[bannorhill]

11:41 AM on 03/24/2011

"We have an agenda worth fighting for… Even if we have to take it to the streets and do what needs to be done" Leo Gerard, president of the United Steelworkers .

"they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama.

[ron ray]

03:53 PM on 03/24/2011

words vs, actions. Obama brings a metaphorical gun. tea partiers bring actual guns to political rallies.

[DianeRPCFL]

04:18 PM on 03/24/2011

"If they don't change government the way we want it changed, perhaps it's time to use our Second Amendment solutions." Sharon Angle

[LicentiousMaximus]

10:51 AM on 03/24/2011

Sorry, but this made me smile, I'm finding myself with less and less compassion for old white dudes.

[lizr]

01:00 PM on 03/24/2011

it's not in the least funny, unless you approve of brown shirt tactics

[librldem]

01:48 PM on 03/24/2011

That describes the teabaggers.

[toldyeso]

04:15 PM on 03/24/2011

youre a class A mor/an.

[For Fathers]

10:45 AM on 03/24/2011

Another day in the life of the mafia.